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You add partitions to a live topic. What happens to per-key ordering?
Tests whether you know the key-to-partition mapping is a hash mod partition count, so increasing partition count changes that mapping -- keys that were co-located in one partition can now land in a different one, breaking the ordering guarantee for events produced before and after the resize.
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